Weglot and Nimdzi Insights conducted this study to evaluate and compare a selection of leading machine translation (MT) technologies: Amazon Translate, DeepL, Google Cloud, Microsoft Translator and ModernMT. The aim was to identify what practical business impact MT can have on website translation.
The study involved a series of human reviews on five of the leading machine translation technologies across seven language pairs with a focus on usability, and evaluating performance.
Source language
en-US
Target languages
fr-FR, de-DE, es-ES, it-IT, zh-CN, ar-EG, pt-PT
Based on the analysis, we concluded that comparing the baseline quality of different MT engines might become an obsolete practice.
Neural machine translation as a technology has reached a certain level of maturity and the market-leading MT providers produce decent stock quality.
